A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.